INFORMS Open Forum

 INFORMS Service Science Section Best Paper Award Competitions

@ 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting

Deadline for Submission: June 30^th, 2021

Submission portal: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6osSEp2qppjkUHc

The INFORMS Service Science Section announces the following two best paper award competitions to recognize excellence among its members and bring prestige to the Service Science Section as well as to the recipients honored.

• Best Cluster Paper Award
• IBM Best Student Paper Award

The INFORMS Service Science Section promotes and disseminates research and applications among professionals interested in theory, methodologies, and applications in Service Science. The Section provides a forum to exchange new ideas and disseminate new findings in Service Science.

Awards

• Best Cluster Paper Award will select a first-place, a second-place, and a third-place winner.
• IBM Best Student Paper Award will select a first-place, a second-place, and a third-place winner.
• All winners and finalists will receive a plaque or award certificate.

Selection Process

Each of the two awards will form its award committee. For each award, its award committee will choose a pool of finalists from the submitted papers for this award, based on:

1. Academic significance (originality, depth, completeness, and work's potential impact on future service science research).
2. Business relevance (importance of the problem and its impact on service engineering or business practice).
3. Fit with the INFORMS Service Science Section.

The finalists will be invited to present in an award competition session judged by the award committee at the 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA, October 24-27, 2021. Each award committee will then decide the order of winners, which will be announced during the business meeting of the Service Science Section.

Eligibility Criteria and Submission Guidelines

Please see the attached call for submissions.

Contact Information

Any questions regarding the paper award competitions can be directed to

• Weiwei Chen (wchen@business.rutgers.edu), Rutgers University, Chair of Service Science Section, Committee Chair of the Best Cluster Paper Award
• Guiping Hu (gphu@iastate.edu), Iowa State University, Vice-Chair of Service Science Section, Committee Chair of the IBM Best Student Paper Award

 

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Weiwei Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management
Rutgers University
Chair of INFORMS Service Science Section
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